All the lowest population servers were merged with mid-population servers to try to balance them out with the high population servers, almost a month ago. Your old character should now be on a more active server.

If you start on Ragnarok with a new character, I can get you a Gold World Pass. Waiting for parties isn't a problem anymore since EXP was doubled from most mobs, and so you can solo EP-DC stuff for more EXP than you are used to, with only 2-3 people. You can even solo effectively. I got SAM to 30 solo in about a week.